Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly because some of them might 've been councillors and knew the ways that sort of er things went on and how to get things done officially and above board . |
| 2 | A sliver of white that must 've been teeth . |
| 3 | if it 's doing so well , oh and you would n't have been on that long under a Labour Government , of course , it would 've been jobs for the boys , they 'd 've slipped you in I 'm sure . |
| 4 | Its most striking answer in International Relations has been systems theory , which we shall examine in the next chapter . |
| 5 | Coward discusses , for instance , the importance of the fact that one of the biggest growth areas in publishing in recent years has been women 's romantic fiction . |
| 6 | The second major contextual change has been shifts in government policy , operating in the context of large scale youth unemployment . |
| 7 | Er there has been cases where er there has been er some sort of erm affairs between men and women but the majority and psychological er think way of thinking that er the Asian woman always think of their husbands only , nothing else . |
| 8 | very recent there has been changes . |
| 9 | But it has been Muslims , set upon by Croat and Serb militiamen alike , who have suffered most . |
| 10 | Britain 's premier clubs has been doings its own campaigning on a very different manifesto — and very successful it has been , too . |
| 11 | Given our general theme , that it has been attitudes which determine methods , it is perhaps not surprising for the reader to discover that the amount of research on the effects of the systems of signing is very small indeed . |
| 12 | The only consistent area of preference in British policy has been satellites ; the other two major components of launchers and ground stations have ( contrary to French doctrine ) been left to others . |
| 13 | In all these sports I have mentioned England has been masters and had all the top players . |
| 14 | The structure of HPr from S. faecalis has been solved using multiple isomorphous replacement ( MIR ) followed by solvent flattening and has been least-squares refined at 1.6 resolution . |
| 15 | Clearly at the state of the talks with the T & G , we still have a long long way to go to reach this new goal and there 's a strong rumour that there has been discussions between Sir John Edmunds and Lord Bill Morris the name of the new union already and I think an apt title for the union at the moment would be Yugoslavia because we 're in ethnic groups , we are sections , we 've got the boiler makers who are still claiming things they lost ten years ago when they merged . |
| 16 | In recent years there have been a number of studies reporting the isolation of mycobacteria from patients with Crohn 's disease , but it has been reports of the isolation of M paratuberculosis , which have generated the greatest interest . |
| 17 | The most serious impact on the community sector has been cuts in local authority spending — the largest source of revenue for most local organisations . |
| 18 | Those who forget the virtues of solidarity in order to protest against the downgrading of individual agency might recall that it has been intellectuals who have been most prone to inflate the significance of individuals — particularly intellectuals — to the same degree that their theories propose universal categories and claim universal effects . |
| 19 | Like other sections of the popular movement the health sector has been years in the growing and in establishing work practice and vital organizations . |
| 20 | Now we have GCSE , which devolves somewhat the choice of topics and the manner and timing of assessment to individual schools , and shifts the balance of that assessment from the retention of content to the mastery of certain identifiable skills — though in practice how extensive a shift this has been remains open to question . |
| 21 | ( One may however ask after the nature of men in so far as it has been men rather than women who have created these pictures of the world and of the ‘ place ’ of woman within it such that they should have needed to construct such a misogynist picture . ) |
| 22 | Since July 1990 he has been Schools Minister , giving him a platform for some controversial and high-profile views . |
| 23 | The heart of the problem has been governments ' concern with social justice and an egalitarian distribution of income which has led them into passing legislation which has increased the costs of doing business . |
| 24 | And there now is the knowledge that women have a breath of sexual desires , and lives , as well as men , and in that area there certainly has been advances . |
| 25 | There 'd been services in St Simon and St Jude 's every day this week . |
| 26 | There 'd been assumptions , had n't there , made very happily and very easily , and they smashed into the buffers . |
| 27 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 28 | We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’ |
| 29 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 30 | All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley . |